EAT MY WORDS: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Janet Theophano, . . Palgrave, $26 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-312-23378-5
Theophano, a folklorist teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, attempts to show that cookbooks can "dramatically expand and enrich our understanding of women's lives." Her discussion covers a select group of English and American cookbooks from the 17th century to the mid-20th, including many she found in antiquarian book shops and archives. Some of them do say a lot about women and their worlds—for example, a 17th-century English receipt book where the writer lists all her worldly possessions, or the 19th-century recipe book containing lists of servants' tasks. In
Reviewed on: 03/04/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 978-1-250-11194-4
Paperback - 384 pages - 978-1-4039-6293-5